Saturday, 7 November 2026

Russian Cossacks - Perry 28mm

A couple of units of Russian Ataman Cossacks next up. Perry miniatures, with wire lances. 

  


Quite a simple paint job, which is nice for a change with Napoleonics! 







In the background a Russian Cossack general (from Elite with Perry Russian General), which I'll have more pics of when I get to Russian Generals. Russian armies need a lot of Cossacks, though their utility is somewhat limited in field battles, so sometimes left out of the on table order of battle for this reason.

Friday, 30 October 2026

Russian Line Artillery Limbers - Perry 28mm

A couple of limbers for the Russian artillery this week. These are Perry models, which come with a more complete set of tack than some of their earlier limbers. Once again I used Gale Force 9 3 stand rope. 50x150mm bases. The idea for these was actually to add some plumes and use them as limbers for the Guard Horse Artillery, which I may still do, as I like to have all my horse artillery at a minimum to have limbers, though stretching that to all artillery would be very expensive!










 

Friday, 23 October 2026

Russian Line Horse Artillery - Perry and Commissar 28mm

Russian Line Horse Artillery this week, from Perry and Commissar Miniatures. The two guns on the left are Commissar - I believe I bought them before Perry released their own Russian Horse Artillery, which are the four guns on the right. The Commissar figures are slightly smaller and have gloves, but otherwise roughly compatible.

Russian Horse Artillery wore the same horsehair crest helmets as the Russian Dragoons, switching to Shakos in 1814, which was after most Napoleonic actions involving Russians had concluded.